Please correct me if I am wrong
but surely actually getting on your bocks is the best way to build up strength in the right muscles for bocking?
Learning to bock and practicing seems to me like a perfect way of building up the muscles and it kinda happens naturally. When you start out you probably just walk around the garden and as you get better you begin running and jumping which is a step up, for your muscles, from just walking.
Stretching is important but on a meet its not very practical, you stop and start and have breaks all over the day the one warm up really wouldn't be enough. If you could do stretches on bocks then I think more people would do it every now and then. I'm no expert. Are there any stretches people could do on bocks?
This is a little off topic. I don't know what other people's meets are like but I think it's important for people to keep hydrated and eat during the day. I know at the Norwich meets are pretty good at this. Usually a couple of people collect money and go buy drinks from tesco's (what is it with the invicta's and powerade! They dont sell it at tesco's lol) and when people get hungary we march up to the market and grab something before we go to the forum.
I mean, so other groups just hang around at 2 places or are they always on the move. Nobody likes carrying stuff around but its important. One you might get cramps and stuff like that and also because you lose concentration and are more likely to splat. Thats why food is important too..
Well, thats my little piece